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Frantic Scapegoat

Creature — GoatRed mana

Most suspect cards treat the mechanic as a downside you accept for a rate discount: menace as upside, can't-block as the tax. This one turns the tax into something you can hand off. Suspect normally sticks to whatever it lands on, but the goat arrives suspected and immediately looks for a way out. The next creature you play offers that exit: if the goat is still suspected when another of your creatures enters, you may move the suspected status onto the newcomer, at which point the goat sheds menace and its blocking restriction and goes back to being a clean 1/1 with haste, while the suspicion rides along to the fresh body. The critical wrinkle is that the trigger checks whether the goat itself is suspected, so once it has successfully passed the status off, it stops offering. This is a one-way release valve, not an engine: absent an outside effect re-suspecting the goat, it launders the designation exactly once and then wants to attack unencumbered. The design axis is genuinely unusual, treating suspect as a status you route onto whichever creature you would most like wearing menace this turn rather than as a penalty you endure on the body that earned it. For a one-mana 1/1, that is a fragile place to hang the trick, but the reading of suspect it proposes (something to redirect, not something to suffer) is the more interesting one.

Frantic Scapegoat (mkm)
MKM · #347uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.16
Oracle Text

Rules text

Haste When this creature enters, suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.) Whenever one or more other creatures you control enter, if this creature is suspected, you may suspect one of the other creatures. If you do, this creature is no longer suspected.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
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Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
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Commander
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Pauper
N/A
Brawl
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Historic
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Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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Pauper Commander
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Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
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Duel Commander
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Future Standard
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COMPETITIVEBRAWL
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TLR
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